Responding to much appreciated comments:

Not much to be intimidated by here: an English teacher who can’t spell, a grammar teacher who can’t gram (very well) – it’s all grace and luck at this end. As for not asking questions, here’s one: I am reducing my elephant ears and cannas to bulbs this year, when do I do that and how? I assume that when they start to wither with impending winter I cut them off at ground level and dig them up for dry basement storage in the proverbial “root” cellar. Is this correct? And for the atrocity of my verbosity, which loquacious you have labeled, I can table it at any time; harder by far, is the elimination of rhyme. I can be tacit when it’s my turn, but in general, brevity I do spurn.